Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah

Tina Steiner, author of Translated People, Translated Texts: Language and Migration in Contemporary African Literature (2009) and Convivial Worlds: Writing Relation from Africa (2021), teaches in the English Department at Stellenbosch University. She co-edits the journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies. Maria Olaussen is Professor of English at the University of Gothenburg. She has published widely on African literature and postcolonial studies. She is the editor of Africa Writing Europe: Oppositions, Entanglements, Juxtapositions (2009).

1. Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Abdulrazak Gurnah 2. Reading Melancholia in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Pilgrims Way 3. From Black Britain to Black Internationalism in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Pilgrims Way 4. Dottie, Cruel Optimism and the Challenge to Culture 5. Postmodern Materialism in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Dottie: Intertextuality as Ideological Critique of Englishness 6. Yusuf’s Choice: East African Agency During the German Colonial Period in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novel Paradise 7. The Submerged History of the Indian Ocean in Admiring Silence 8. Narrative Cartographies, ‘Beautiful Things’ and Littoral States in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea 9. ‘It Worked in a Different Way’: Male Same- Sex Desire in the Novels of Abdulrazak Gurnah 10. Honour and Shame in the Construction of Difference in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Novels 11. White- washed Minarets and Slimy Gutters: Abdulrazak Gurnah, Narrative Form and Indian Ocean Space 12. At the Margins: Silences in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Admiring Silence and The Last Gift 13. Locating Abdulrazak Gurnah: Margins, Mainstreams, Mobilities 14. A Conversation with Abdulrazak Gurnah